Teens dealing with depression or anxiety

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Anxiety hasn't been so much a problem for me since I've been on medication, but depression has been on and off. Mainly because I can't get anywhere socially. I've become very cynical of most people my own age - I don't believe them when they claim they're there for me to talk about things then they're never available. They're got more important people to be having a good time with. They have no use for me, I'm becoming convinced.

I was at a dance recently, and barely anybody would dance with me. Those moron girls claiming they weren't going to be dancing for awhile, then two seconds later they were dancing with some NT guy.

Sometimes I just wish that half the NT population would just go away and let us Aspies advance ourselves.

I have Bipolar Disorder and Social Anxiety Disorder.I used to be VERY depressed from ages 8-14.


-SpaceCase

As an Aspie, I'm struggling with social anxiety disorder. A few years ago, a doctor suggested I should take Paxil , and I did. Yet it didn't help much, except that I was always in a dreamlike state, and I gained 90lb in two years. I quitted, and started seeing a psychologist. A year later, my life is much better, I can maintain friendships, and I've even lost the weight.

I wonder if all Aspies have a degree of social anxiety. If so, we not only are afraid to interact, but possibly create a wall of apathy to mask that fear. That's what I did. For years, I told myself that the reason I didn't have any friends is because I didn't want friends, but that's not true. I wanted to interact more as soon as I stumbled past a few awkward conversations.

hiya,

i struggle with anxciaty to do with my living arrangements and am still yet to find a cure. the convolted thing hurt the most,

jammie & lion

Anxiety...mostly social anxiety, is the main cause of all of my behavior problems.

Guess this is a sort of a rant thread. If not I'm sorry, please disregard what I say.

I feel kinda depressed and has been on and off suicidal for two and a half years time. My whole life has been dedicated to trying to be someone I'm not to be able to fit in and although I think it's kept me from being bullied it's extremely hard to change that social pattern. It has lead to extreme identity problems (I'm very unsure about what I like and very anxious to show or tell anyone, even my therapist and family that I in my mind know cant hurt/ridicule me) and insecurity that has lately become more and more severe. I've been locked up for two months, treated with drugs and evaluated for a number of disorders but nothing seems to have any effect, it doesn't feel like I really try hard enough though I know I do my best.

What is most back breaking for me is that my family takes this pretty hard. I react to that by lying to them about how I feel which only makes it worse for them when/if the lie is revealed.

I'm wondering if anyone recognizes any of this and if it can be related to AS somehow. I figure I have a lot of common with people here but I'm uncertain whether it's because of the AS or other reasons. AS seems like such a broad spectrum to me that it's hard to identify myself with all parts of it if you know what I mean.

Well I guess I'm similar to TheBirdFlu in that I've been depressed and suicidal for two and half years (freshman ~ junior year). Highschool has been a big awakening for me socially and emotionally...I've learned a lot about the world in that time and where I belong.

Highschool has been pretty traumatic for me as an Aspie who wants to fit in and be around other people but can't. Being in love hasn't helped matters much either...I'm so lonely.

But hey who isn't, right?

I have been diagnosed with boy Depression and Anxiety.

I have been to 6 psychologists/psychiatrists and I started going to since the second grade. I have been scared and depressed as long as I can remember. I have even attempted suicide once in the 8th grade, but now I'm a bit better not suicidal just still scared and depressed.

I go to a psychologist and a psychiatrist and I'm constantly in the school psychologists office.

I would really like to talk to someone who is depressed or has anxiety.

I have both depression and a Generalized Anxiety Disorder, I also have Premenstrual Disphoric Disorder. For these disorders I am taking Cymbalta and Clonazepam.

I've heard a lot about the benefits of "talking about it". However I can not. "Alexithymia", I believe it's called. Fortunately, neither do I really WANT to talk about it. I rant at forums at times, but I keep it at a minimum.

I'm still lonely though. It's not about having someone with whom to "talk about it", as much as having someone with whom to simply "be". My best friend is someone I haven't spoken to in years, we just text eachother. Which makes me feel lonely at times.

I haven't been properly diagnosed with anything other than a slight birch-allergy.

I was really depressed to the point of dysfunctionality... I had highs but I was mostly low... form when I was 12 to now (I'm 19). I even had it before... in high school it was worse... then it got really bad this year and I finally had to see a shrink for it. If I'd known how to express myself and known that depression wasn't a stigma and I wasn't alone I should have gone when I was 12! Since I started taking Celexa I hardly see black holes any more, and only started to "fade out" once... I feel like I can actually go out, the social aniety is almost gone (except for the last two days-- it came back majorly for some reason! Maybe that makeup I spilled in my pills effects the social-anxiety-killing part of the drug but not the deep-depression part of it... it doesn't work so well though now as it used to... for the last 2 days... ever since I spilled the stuff in it and washed it off yesterday and it crumbled into wet powder and still hasn't dried!)


My parents seemed to find taking me to a shrink stigmatizing. They cared more about my "autism" than my depression. They ignored all signs of depression. Denied them, even. I think THEY'RE autistic. Finally they're getting more open-minded, perhaps because they finally realized that it isn't going to go away if you just ignore it.

According to the counselors and psychiatrists I've seen over the years, I've been depressed since I was ten. Fortunately my mom thought that was a load of crap and didn't put me on medication until my senior year of high school. She didn't want drugs interfering with my already funky development. After a suicide attempt following my first year of college, we decided to get serious and that's when I got a brain scan. The doctor said I had the saddest brain he'd seen in a long time. Fortunately he was also the resident Asperger diagnoser, so I was labeled. He was able to get me stable and now I only feel a little sad sometimes. Unfortunately, my sadness turns to anger and then violence. Does that happen to any of you? I used to hit myself and bang my head against the walls. One day I got a gigantic bruise on my forehad and couldn't move my eyebrows, so I stopped, I'm pretty vain sometimes. Now I have a bunch of pillows to hit insead. Oh, eventually I found out that hormones were starting the depression episodes and I was put on birth control pills, that helped a lot. It was easier to pinpoint the stressors without hormones causing insanity

I'm medically depressed, on Prozac, and all my anxiety levels (thanks to Prozac) have gone from 0 to -1000.

My anxiety issues mostly have to do with the fact that I am overly watchful for signs that people will betray me or turn their backs on me, and I am severely traumatized when I percieve that I have been rejected.